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Cochiti Lake - Pena Blanca, NM

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Overview


Cochiti Lake - Pena Blanca is a very small town located in the state of New Mexico. With a population of 1,742 people and just one neighborhood, Cochiti Lake - Pena Blanca is the 84th largest community in New Mexico.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Cochiti Lake - Pena Blanca isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Cochiti Lake - Pena Blanca are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Cochiti Lake - Pena Blanca is a town of professionals, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Cochiti Lake - Pena Blanca who work in office and administrative support (15.47%), teaching (9.70%), and healthcare suport services (7.74%).

Of important note, Cochiti Lake - Pena Blanca is also a town of artists. Cochiti Lake - Pena Blanca has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Cochiti Lake - Pena Blanca’s character.

And if you like science, one thing you'll find is that Cochiti Lake - Pena Blanca has lots of scientists living in town - whether they be life scientists, physical scientists (like astronomers), or social scientists (like geographers!). So, if you're scientific-minded, you might like it here too.

Also of interest is that Cochiti Lake - Pena Blanca has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 18.65% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

Setting & Lifestyle

It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Cochiti Lake - Pena Blanca has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Cochiti Lake - Pena Blanca has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Cochiti Lake - Pena Blanca than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Cochiti Lake - Pena Blanca may be for you.

One downside of living in Cochiti Lake - Pena Blanca, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 33.58 minutes every day commuting to work.

Demographics

In terms of college education, Cochiti Lake - Pena Blanca is somewhat better educated than the 21.84% who have a 4-year degree or higher in the typical US community: 25.23% of adults 25 and older in the town have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Cochiti Lake - Pena Blanca in 2022 was $33,700, which is upper middle income relative to New Mexico, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $134,800 for a family of four. However, Cochiti Lake - Pena Blanca contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Cochiti Lake - Pena Blanca is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Cochiti Lake - Pena Blanca home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Cochiti Lake - Pena Blanca residents report their race to be Native American, followed by White. Cochiti Lake - Pena Blanca also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 31.72% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Cochiti Lake - Pena Blanca include German, English, Irish, Polish, and Scandinavian.

The most common language spoken in Cochiti Lake - Pena Blanca is Native American languages. Other important languages spoken here include English and Spanish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Cochiti Lake - Pena Blanca, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Real Estate

This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 4 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 98.6% of America. One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.

Car Ownership

Most American households own a car or other vehicle. Many own two cars or perhaps three. In the United States, it is useful to have an automobile not only for commuting, but also for shopping and getting to other services one needs. But NeighborhoodScout's analysis revealed that households in the neighborhood have a highly unusual car ownership. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 38.7% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 97.8% of the neighborhoods in the nation.

Occupations

The neighborhood has a greater proportion of government workers living in it than 97.6% of the neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. This is a unique feature of this neighborhood, and one that shapes its character.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Native American ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 36.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 31.8% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Native American languages at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.9% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Cochiti Lake - Pena Blanca are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 76.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 15.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 61.5% of U.S. neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the neighborhood, 38.3% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 23.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (21.4%), and 16.5% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 55.8% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Native American languages and Spanish.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.

In the neighborhood in Cochiti Lake - Pena Blanca, NM, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Native American (36.9%). There are also a number of people of Spanish ancestry (17.3%), and residents who report Mexican roots (10.4%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (9.2%), along with some English ancestry residents (6.9%), among others.

Getting to Work

Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (40.9% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (71.7%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (7.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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